This table shows: 1. That 1,821, or 51.92 percent, of the 3,507 contracting firms investigated have maintained wages. 2. That 1,480, or 42.20 percent, of firms investigated have reduced wages; of these firms 845, or 24.09 percent, have reduced wages less than 10 per cent, and 635, or 18.11 percent, have reduced wages 10 percent or more. 3. All employees were affected by wage reductions in 695, or 19.82 percent, of the firms which reduced wages; part employees were affected by wage reduc tions in each of the 785, or 22.38 percent, of the firms which reduced wages. Mr. FRANK HEALEY. Table no. 3 shows the 3,507 concerns classified first, under the United States Bureau of Census classification of industry. Mr. HEALEY. That table may be inserted in the record at this point. (Table no. 3 is as follows:) TABLE NO. 3 The 3,507 Government contracting firms investigated have been grouped according to the United States Bureau of the Census classification of industry. This table reflects the number of contracting firms of each industry group which, since May 27, 1935, have not maintained the wage and hour standards in effect prior to that date. A summary of each group has been attached. This table shows 1. That 3,507 Government contractors were investigated involving 1,515,486 employees. 2. That 1,912 of such firms, involving 977,414 employees, were maintaining wage and hour standards. This figure arrived at through columns 3, 7, and 8 3. That 1,448 of such firms involving 405,373 employees were not maintaining prior wage and hour standards. 4. That 147 of such firms involving 132,699 employees refused to furnish information regarding labor standards in effect in their plants. This number of firms differs from the number of firms refusing information as shown on tables nos. 1 and 2, because some firms would furnish information on wages but not hours, and vice versa. This figure of 147 is the total number of firms refusing to furnish either wage, hour, or child labor information. |